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  • Ormazd and Ahriman in Mazdan Philosophy: Blavatsky on Human Conflict, Evil and Modernity

    Ormazd and Ahriman in Mazdan Philosophy: Blavatsky on Human Conflict, Evil and Modernity

    Blavatsky here in her article from her Lucifer magazine, explains the philosophy of the dual principles of Good and Evil of Mazdaism and brilliantly critiques modernity through it, and I specifically extracted these lines. INTRODUCTION First things first, I am not a scholar of pre-Islamic Iranian religions and do not fully understand the extent and…

  • Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom

    Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom

    INTRODUCTION When I come across modern alternative spiritual teachers constructing new terminology, I am reminded that this has become customary in twentieth-century to present-day. The first generation of Theosophists were not constructing an extensive array of new terminology to baffle people. They were using terminology from schools, traditions and languages directly and then interpretating them…